Free Music Archive - ccCommunity BlogCreative Commons music from around the world wide web, selected by our independent curatorial crew2019-03-21T14:51:06-04:00blog.atomTimecrawler 82 Brings Retrowave To FMAhttp://freemusicarchive.org/curator/CCcommunity/blog/Timecrawler_82_Brings_Citypop_To_FMA2019-02-27T06:15:21-05:002018-07-25T11:46:18-04:00Cheyenne Hhttp://freemusicarchive.org/member/cheyenne_h<p>Retrowave is a term used to describe music that hearkens back to early synth sounds used in pop. In this case, think of early Japanese animation. Fast cars, chunky moto jackets, night marketplaces, dance clubs and asymmetrical hair. It might also be called Citypop - a term that is a jazzy, cosmopolitan sound that was all the rage in 1980s Japan. This album, Osaka Lights, brings the more synth-driven sound to the fore.</p>
<p>Opening with "Driving In The Rain" (complete with field recordings from a rainstorm), the tone is set: this is an album for cruising around a neon-lit city at night, sparkling and refracted in a million raindrops on a windshield. "Mount Fuji" gets a little darker and blustery, whereas "Palms and Seagulls" has a distinct summery, beachy cruise vibe. Listen below. </p>Rod Hamilton and Tiffany Seal's "Enchanted Forest" Is Beautiful, Haunting, and Complexhttp://freemusicarchive.org/curator/CCcommunity/blog/Rod_Hamilton_and_Tiffany_Seals_Enchanted_Forest_Is_Beautiful_Haunting_and_Complex2019-01-16T09:59:50-05:002018-07-23T11:08:34-04:00Cheyenne Hhttp://freemusicarchive.org/member/cheyenne_h<p>The "Enchanted Forest" of Rod Hamilton and Tiffany Seal is a many-splendored listen. Each track has its own texture and unique flow. The opening, title track introduces the album in a calming, meditative way, but the rest of the album veers from that path often, to introduce new sonic landscapes. "Know Your Birds" helps you learn to identify birdcalls. "Tryptic Dance" trots along with arpeggiating synths, drum machines, and live-looped marimba to encourage trancelike listening, and then hits you with a synth solo that is as unexpected as it is appropriate, it flits around the track with the random calculations of a moth circling a flame. "Orange Sunshine" brings the album full circle, ending in a place that is similar to where it began. </p>
<p>This Baltimore duo is making something in the tradition of many other new age artists working around the world, bringing this gentle, progressive music form back into the limelight. If you enjoy music that is progressive, layered electronic, or vaguely educational, you may want to give this one a listen. </p>Album Tells The Story of River Trouthttp://freemusicarchive.org/curator/CCcommunity/blog/Instrumental_Album_Tells_the_Story_of_a_Trout2018-08-06T13:30:38-04:002014-02-13T01:15:00-05:00Andrea Silenzihttp://freemusicarchive.org/member/ange<p>One of our favorite new uploads comes to us from the French band <strong><a href="http://salmo-trio.wix.com/salmo" target="_blank">Salmo</a></strong>. They are a post-punk experimental trio composing narrative music inspired by nature or natural phenomenons.</p>
<p>Their self-titled album is entirely devoted to the life of a river trout, from birth to death. The tracks flow with forward momentum, and capture something dark, cool, and dynamic. They are offering this release using the Creative Commons <a href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/deed.en_US">Attribution 4.0</a> license, which makes this river trout album free to spawn many other unique creations (animations, video games, remixes), as long as they give attribution. <strong><a href="/music/Salmo/Salmo/">More</a><span style="text-decoration: underline;"> Info</span>.</strong></p>Creative Commons Halloween Mix 2013http://freemusicarchive.org/curator/CCcommunity/blog/201310241508034642018-08-06T13:30:38-04:002013-10-27T21:30:00-04:00http://freemusicarchive.org/member/Irene_Rible<p>Triskaidekaphobiacs beware because here are <a href="/member/Irene_Rible/Creative_Commons_Halloween_Mix_2013">13 tracks for Halloween 2013</a>!</p>
<p>This Samhain we've got <a href="/music/Sypha_Nadon/Our_Lady_of_the_Flowers_of_the_Red_Night/MZR019_Sypha_Nadon_Our_Lady_of_the_Flowers_of_the_Red_Night_01_Invocation" target="_blank">William S. Burroughs</a> getting magickal, <a href="/music/Urthquake/Live_at_WFMU_on_Dan_Bodahs_Show_92709/Crowley" target="_blank">Aleister Crowley</a> getting remixed, <a href="/music/Jeremy_Bible/The_Journey_of_Enoch/" target="_blank">haunting apocrypha</a>, <a href="/music/Dokaka/Works/angel_of_deathmp3" target="_blank">beatboxing death metal</a>, <a href="/music/MIZAR/The_Invisible_Scene/Svjat_dreams_dark_demo_version" target="_blank">something Balkan</a> that sounds like an outtake from Eyes Wide Shut, and lots of <a href="/music/Anastasia_Vronski__Ricardo_Alrucini/The_Groom_is_Still_Waiting_for_the_Bride_at_the_Altar/" target="_blank">spoken weirdness</a>... but wait! There's more! Check out Halloween mixes of yore <a href="/member/Irene_Rible/Creative_Commons_Halloween_Mix_2009" target="_blank">here</a>.</p>Secret Boyfriend – Skin on the Clockhttp://freemusicarchive.org/curator/CCcommunity/blog/Secret_Boyfriend__Skin_on_the_Clock2017-07-05T04:35:25-04:002013-08-19T05:25:28-04:00Dave Emmerthttp://freemusicarchive.org/member/DaveBombay<p class="MsoNormal">Skin on the Clock by <a href="/music/Secret_Boyfriend/"><strong>Secret Boyfriend</strong></a> is another solid release from the <a href="/label/pricetapes/">Price Tapes</a> label based Providence, RI. <em>Skin on the Clock </em>is a drone-y experimental mix of songs that take you on modulated journey through the land of mono magnetic music that slips in and out of catchy territory.<span> </span>The spectrum of sounds and samples used are skillfully assembled into a good album that is ripe for your tape deck. </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Ryan Martin, the solo-artist behind Secret Boyfriend, hails from Chapel Hill/Carrboro, NC where he is helping to keep the low-fi/expiremental/noise game alive and well. If the digital download provided here isn’t enough to whet your tape palette, mosey on over to <a href="http://pricetapes.tumblr.com/">pricetapes.tumblr.com</a> to get a physical copy.</p>Bottlesmoker: Electronic Music Made with Custom Toy Instruments in Bandung, Indonesiahttp://freemusicarchive.org/curator/CCcommunity/blog/Bottlesmoker_Catchy_Music_Made_with_Toy_Instruments_in_Bandung_Indonesia2017-07-05T04:35:25-04:002013-06-27T02:45:00-04:00Andrea Silenzihttp://freemusicarchive.org/member/ange<p><a href="/music/Bottlesmoker/"><strong>Bottlesmoker</strong></a> is Anggung Kuy Kay and Ryan Nobie Adzanian, an electronic pop duo from Bandung, Indonesia. When their local record labels didn't know how to charecterize their sound, they turned to the web and Creative Commons to share their music under the belief that "if there are 10 people who hate your music, there will be 100 people or more out there who love your music elsewhere." <a href="https://www.facebook.com/bottlesmoker">They were right</a>.</p>
<p>Their unique indietronic instrumental sound is created with self-made instruments and circut bending. Their favorite sounds come from toy musical instruments such as glockenspiel, hand bell, melodica, and pretty much any toy that reminds you of toy phones, radio or Nintendo DS. Inspired by musicians such as <strong><a href="http://www.lullatone.com/">Lullatone</a></strong>, <a href="/music/Dan_Deacon/"><strong>Dan Deacon</strong></a>, and <a href="/music/Tidy_Kid/"><strong>Tidy Kid</strong></a>, they describe their music as "a happy place where you do your daily activities" such as sleeping, riding, reading and making art.</p>
<p>Their music first came to us as part of an incredible <a href="/music/Indonesian_Netlabel_Union/CCIDAP2012/">Indonesian CC Music Compilation</a> brought to us by our curator <a href="/curator/XEROXED/">XEROXED</a>. You can download their full album <a href="/music/Bottlesmoker/Hypnagogic/">Hypnagogic</a> here on the Free Music Archive, and check out their <a href="http://bottlesmoker.asia/">website</a> and <a href="https://soundcloud.com/bottlesmoker">Soundcloud</a> page for more catchy tunes you'll want to take with you everywhere.</p>Nult: Instrumental Soundscapeshttp://freemusicarchive.org/curator/CCcommunity/blog/Nult_Post-Rock_Instrumental_Soundscapes2017-07-05T04:35:25-04:002013-06-25T01:45:00-04:00Andrea Silenzihttp://freemusicarchive.org/member/ange<table>
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<p><strong><a href="/music/nult/">Nult</a> </strong>came together in late 2011 in Osona, in central Catalonia, Spain. Their music is highly narrative with postrock influences, and each of their tracks takes on the charecteristics of a landscape, or a film. Their debut album <a href="/music/nult/asil_liseli/">asil liseli</a> was put together over the course of a year, and reflect the thoughts, reflections, and voices of this time for the band.</p>
<p>It's just another great summertime upload from the <a href="/label/La_Gramola_Netlabel/">La Gramola Netlabel</a>. La Gramola (in English, jukebox) curates some incredible pop, rock, indie, and experimental albums for the FMA. In fact, one of <a href="https://twitter.com/mcdaldno/status/349265859233058822">our twitter followers</a> shared that this was one of his favorite albums ever. Dive in.</p>
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<p>With winter and the hiccup of daylight savings time behind us, our taxes filed, our yearly vacation time used up already and our New Year's resolutions long forgotten, we set to the tasks of re-populating the Earth and making beautiful music.</p>
<p>For this <a href="/music/Various_Peppermill_Records/Spring/">Spring Compilation</a> from <a href="/curator/Peppermill_Records/">Peppermill Records</a>, enjoy a lovely string of more acoustic-based artists to brighten your weeks. Some of my favorite gems here include the bouncy French indie pop opening track from <a href="/music/Montag/">Montag</a>, and the intimate and textured vocal duos in "Pony Rides" by <a href="/music/Candy_Claws/">Candy Claws</a>.</p>
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<p>Inspired by Sun City Girls, <a title="http://freemusicarchive.org/music/Master_Musicians_of_Bukkake" href="/music/Master_Musicians_of_Bukkake" target="_blank">Master Musicians of Bukkake</a>, <a title="http://freemusicarchive.org/music/Hayvanlar_Alemi" href="/music/Hayvanlar_Alemi" target="_blank">Hayvanlar Alemi</a> and related strains of psychedelic improv and raw international music, the collective's self-released cassettes would sound right at home on Sublime Frequencies ("Radio Hexas?"). Tune into <em><a title="" href="/member/post/" target="_blank">Old Norse Mara</a></em> and <em><a title="http://freemusicarchive.org/music/Akchamel/The_Divine_Vine_Tapes" href="/music/Akchamel/The_Divine_Vine_Tapes" target="_blank">The Divine Vine Tapes</a></em> as<strong> </strong>throat singing and mysterious glossolalia meld with analog percussion, wind instruments, metal strings and chimes to cast a malevolent witch-doctor spell.</p>
<p>Houston may not be the most receptive environment for Ak'chamel's shamanic performances, but they have graced a handful of unconventional venues around town, including a laundromat, a clothing store, and an attic. Formerly known as Chairs, you may encounter Ak'chamel at <a title="http://freemusicarchive.org/music/Akchamel/" href="/music/Akchamel/" target="_blank">FMA</a>, <a title="http://akchamel.bandcamp.com/" href="http://akchamel.bandcamp.com/" target="_blank">Bandcamp</a>, <a title="https://www.facebook.com/giverofillness" href="https://www.facebook.com/giverofillness" target="_blank">Facebook</a> and beyond.</p>Post-Materialists from the Moscow Undergroundhttp://freemusicarchive.org/curator/CCcommunity/blog/Post-Materialists2017-07-05T04:35:25-04:002013-03-06T20:45:02-05:00Jason Sigalhttp://freemusicarchive.org/member/jason<p>Moscow's <a title="http://freemusicarchive.org/music/Post-Materialists" href="/music/Post-Materialists" target="_blank" data-mce-href="/music/Post-Materialists"><strong>Post-Materialists</strong></a> (Пост-Материалисты) are too weird for Moscow's conservative venues. But they don't care. Inspired by freeform experimental groups like The Residents and <a title="freemusicarchive.org/music/big_city_orchestra" href="/member/post/freemusicarchive.org/music/big_city_orchestra" target="_blank" data-mce-href="/member/post/freemusicarchive.org/music/big_city_orchestra">Big City Orchestra</a>, and in-league with locals like <a title="http://freemusicarchive.org/music/Asian_Women_on_the_Telephone/" href="/music/Asian_Women_on_the_Telephone/" target="_blank" data-mce-href="/music/Asian_Women_on_the_Telephone/">Asian Women on the Telephone</a> and <a title="http://freemusicarchive.org/music/Arabian_Horses" href="/music/Arabian_Horses" target="_blank" data-mce-href="/music/Arabian_Horses">Arabian Horses</a>, the Post-Materialists' sound is best heard in Moscow's basements and abandoned factories.</p><p>Sergey founded Post-Materialists in 2008, starting out as a half-improvised duo with Kobyla. Sergey is a saxophonist, riff-master and lyricist who performs solo as Fish Eye, and plays in everything from hip-hop to noise rock groups. Kobyla cut his teeth on post-punk guitar and synth-pop. Additional members join in on anything from effects pedals to violin, so even as songs take shape, Post-Materialists keep the spirit of improv and continue to evolve.</p><p>The group has developed a following not only in the fringes of Moscow, but all over the world thanks to releases on international labels like Cack Tapes, Retrotrasher, Underground Pollution and Hiroshima Toy Pet. I first heard about them through a tape on Portland Oregon's Eggy Records with art by Massachusettes experimentalist <a title="http://freemusicarchive.org/music/Sam_Gas_Can/" href="/music/Sam_Gas_Can/" target="_blank" data-mce-href="/music/Sam_Gas_Can/">Sam Gas Can</a>. </p><p>Of the 25+ tracks that Post-Materialists have shared <a title="freemusicarchive.org/music/post-materialists" href="/member/post/freemusicarchive.org/music/post-materialists" target="_blank" data-mce-href="/member/post/freemusicarchive.org/music/post-materialists">here on the FMA</a>, I've picked out a few of my favorites below. "Jazz Flutes" and "I'm Sitting On You" are from the sax-surfin-on-sludge release <em><a title="http://freemusicarchive.org/music/post-materialists/Teenage_Gigantizm/" href="/music/post-materialists/Teenage_Gigantizm/" target="_blank" data-mce-href="/music/post-materialists/Teenage_Gigantizm/">Teenage Gigantizm</a></em>. <span style="text-align: right;" data-mce-style="text-align: right;">"Glyptique" is some of that h</span><span style="text-align: right;" data-mce-style="text-align: right;">ypnotic synth burble from their twisted new 7". "Mathematic Nightmare" recalls coconspirators AWOTT and can be found on <em><a title="http://freemusicarchive.org/music/post-materialists/Junky_Tapes/" href="/music/post-materialists/Junky_Tapes/" target="_blank" data-mce-href="/music/post-materialists/Junky_Tapes/">Junky Tapes</a></em> alongside an industrial take on "Venus in Furs". </span>"Backward City" is indicitive of the lo-fi downbeat drone incantations from <em><a title="http://freemusicarchive.org/music/post-materialists" href="/music/post-materialists" target="_blank" data-mce-href="/music/post-materialists">Post-Pop</a></em>, originally released on a cassette on Russia's Cack Tapes. And their <a title="http://freemusicarchive.org/music/post-materialists/" href="/music/post-materialists/" target="_blank" data-mce-href="/music/post-materialists/">First EP</a> finds roots in a pot'n'pan approach to no wave, in the vein of "Evening Event."</p><p>Check out a live rendition of "Teenage Giganitizm" and a music video called "Singer of Sad Songs" after the jump.</p>Snowboarding Like the Beach Boys Surfhttp://freemusicarchive.org/curator/CCcommunity/blog/Snowboarder_Snowboards_Like_the_Beach_Boys_Surf2017-07-05T04:35:25-04:002013-02-21T01:15:00-05:00Jason Sigalhttp://freemusicarchive.org/member/jason<p>"I've snowboarded once," Michael Stasis admitted when I asked him about <strong><a title="http://freemusicarchive.org/music/snowboarder" href="/music/snowboarder" target="_blank" data-mce-href="/music/snowboarder">Snowboarder</a></strong>, his new collaboration with Jason Kick and David Nichols. "It's like the Beach Boys didn't surf." The trio's got harmonized pop songcraft to back up that reference, but instead they list "devils" as their primary influence and "hell" as their general manager.</p><p><strong><a title="http://snowboarder.bandcamp.com/album/snowboarder" href="http://snowboarder.bandcamp.com/album/snowboarder" target="_blank" data-mce-href="http://snowboarder.bandcamp.com/album/snowboarder">Snowboarder's self-titled debut</a></strong> offers seven tracks of warped, hook-laden jams for your real or imagined snowboarding trips. The opening track "Sled Dogs" takes off on a bent guitar wail over jangle pop powder, then flips a 180 into a cinematic bridge. The next verse describes some kind of coke iditarod, landing unexpectedly in a torrent of radical metal riffs. Elsewhere, Snowboarder rides everything from 80's dance pop ("Poppers") to industrial nursery rhymes on Sulfur Hexafluoride ("Going Up The Mountain").</p><p>Jason Kick is best known for his work in San Francisco synth-pop favorites Maus Haus whose motorik, hypnotic rhythms earned them "Band of the Year" in SF Deli Mag. They also seem to have influenced some of the recent work of Snowboarder collaborator Michael Stasis. A talented solo artist, Stasis first caught our ear via Phoning It In's tip on his Natural Resources cassette: "a perfect lo-fi pop-psych-folk concoction in the lineage of Ariel Pink or Guided By Voices."</p>Machines in Heaven: Glasgow Jihad EPhttp://freemusicarchive.org/curator/CCcommunity/blog/Machines_in_Heaven_Glasgow_Jihad_EP2017-07-05T04:35:25-04:002013-02-15T09:30:00-05:00Andrea Silenzihttp://freemusicarchive.org/member/ange<table>
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<p>This debut EP by the Glasgow four-piece <strong><a href="http://machinesinheaven.bandcamp.com/">Machines In Heaven</a></strong> declares war in its title, begins with a national athem, and goes on to invade borders between Pop, Post-Rock, Electronic and Hip-Hop. This is a new collaboration between Graham Crossan (previously The Great I Am) and producer Magic Daddy (Optimo, Stuff, Oscarr), who took Crossen's lo-fi aestetic and transformed it into a multilatered production. While all three tracks are well worth a <a href="/music/Machines_In_Heaven/The_Glasgow_Jihad_EP/">download</a>, the Glasgow reviewer <a href="http://ravechild.co.uk/2013/02/06/record-review-machines-in-heaven-glasgow-jihad-black-lantern-music/" target="_blank">RaveChild</a> describes the closing track as "the band at their most ambitious, encompassing everything from skittering RnB rhythms to a widescreen Killers-esque guitar line." Watch out for their debut album in March out on <a href="http://www.blacklanternmusic.com">Black Lantern Music</a>.</p>
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<p>The opening track "GFGDGT" stands for Good Food, Good Drinks, Good Times. It conveys all that and more with its grinding anchor of a beat and a cosmic synth lead that toes the line between Dam Funk and Dabke (that spirited solo about 2 minutes in particularly recalls <a title="http://youtu.be/z3FWmagFMpo?t=53s" href="http://youtu.be/z3FWmagFMpo?t=53s" target="_blank">this vibe</a>). More highlights include the talkbox-infused spacious groove of "Favrit Flayvah" and the hop-along organ beat of "Happy Money."</p>
<p><em>Wiggle</em> was released by <a title="http://www.urbanhomecompanion.org/" href="http://www.urbanhomecompanion.org/" target="_blank">Urban Home Companion</a>. The Twin City activist/art collective is a home for music by Dr. Wylie, Toussaint Morrison, and their talented collaborators. It's also a platform for forays into film and theater. We're looking forward to new releases by both Dr. Wylie and Toussaint Morrison this April!</p>Jenifer Àvila: Demo #1http://freemusicarchive.org/curator/CCcommunity/blog/Jenifer_vila_Demo_12017-07-05T04:35:25-04:002013-02-08T09:30:00-05:00Andrea Silenzihttp://freemusicarchive.org/member/ange<table>
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<p>Forget what's outside your window. It's laid back Spring afternoon with flowers on the trees and sunshine in your face when you listen to the warm sounds of the Spanish indie pop duo <strong><a href="/music/Jenifer_Avila/Demo_1/">Jenifer Ávila</a></strong>. According to their <a href="http://www.myspace.com/jeniferavila">MySpace page</a>, the band started one day when they found a guitar just sitting inside a garbage bin with a name written on it: Jenifer Ávila. A couple days later, the duo started writing songs.</p>
<p>This release comes to us from <a href="/label/Enough_Records/">Enough Records</a>, a netlabel run as a hobby by a couple of wonderful Portuguese folks to distribute and promote free music.</p>
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</table>Dreaming Up Songs: 52 Weeks of Sick to the Back Teethhttp://freemusicarchive.org/curator/CCcommunity/blog/Dreaming_Up_Songs_52_Weeks_of_Sick_to_the_Back_Teeth2017-07-05T04:35:25-04:002013-02-04T11:00:00-05:00Andrea Silenzihttp://freemusicarchive.org/member/ange<p>For every week of 2012, <a href="/music/Sick_To_The_Back_Teeth/"><strong>Sick to the Back Teeth</strong></a> wrote a new song. The phrase "sick to the back teeth" literally means to be fed up with something, but that never happened to <a href="http://sick-to-the-back-teeth.tumblr.com/">the solo-artist behind the project</a>.</p>
<p>This might have to do with SBT's flexibly in sound and style. After 10 years performing, he still makes "just whatever music I feel like" including rock, metal, noise, folk, electronic music, sometimes all of these things combined. As a result, listening to the lengthy 52-track album <a href="/music/Sick_To_The_Back_Teeth/Counterpoint"><em>Counterpoint</em></a> is kind of like visiting a soda fountain. Sometimes you get distinct flavors like a Cherry Coke, Dr. Pepper, or Sprite, and sometimes you get a shot of all of them in the same cup. You'd think combining sodas would get gross, but it usually tastes pretty good.</p>
<p>A couple of the songs on the album, including "Dream Song" and "A Hole in the Ocean," came straight from dreams, where SBT imagined himself recording before frantically waking up and transcribing the sounds. Many of the songs are mellow transportive instrumentals, like the week 33 song "Venerate" (<a href="https://vimeo.com/50590353">video</a>).</p>
<p>When listening to this project, you have to wonder if a weekly songwriting campaign can really sharpen your teeth, so to speak, as a musician. SBT says, "Nah." When asked what's next, he says, "Martini?"</p>Toussaint Morrison Is Not My Boyfriendhttp://freemusicarchive.org/curator/CCcommunity/blog/Toussaint_Morrison_Toussaint_Morrison_Is_Not_My_Boyfriend2017-07-05T04:35:25-04:002013-01-31T07:45:00-05:00Andrea Silenzihttp://freemusicarchive.org/member/ange<table>
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<p>Minneapolis slam poet <strong><a href="/music/Toussaint_Morrison/">Toussaint Morrison</a> </strong>is a hopeless romantic and a super-villain. Abandoning a decade of front man’ing for live bands <strong><a href="http://www.myspace.com/theblendminneapolis">The Blend</a> </strong>and <strong><a href="http://www.myspace.com/lazlosupreme">Lazlo Supreme</a></strong>, Morrison joined forces with the evil Dr. Wylie, producer and confidant to produce this album in a series of three highly literary <a href="http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/toussaintmorrison/toussaint-morrison-mixtape-30">kickstarter funded</a> projects.<br /><br />In addition to his album <a href="/music/Toussaint_Morrison/Toussaint_Morrison_Is_Not_My_Boyfriend/"><em>Toussaint Morrison Is Not My Boyfriend</em></a>, check out his video <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=ug1VvMGVCmM">Christler 300</a>, and his album<em> <a href="http://toussaintmorrison.bandcamp.com/album/toussaint-morrison-is-not-my-homeboy">Toussaint Morrison Is Not My Homeboy</a></em>.</p>
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</table>Digi G'Alessio: Cirque de Pochehttp://freemusicarchive.org/curator/CCcommunity/blog/Digi_GAlessio_Cirque_de_Poche2017-07-05T04:35:25-04:002013-01-24T07:04:32-05:00Ben Seretanhttp://freemusicarchive.org/member/bseretan<table>
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<p>Don't let the album art fool you - <a href="/music/Digi_GAlessio/Cirque_de_Poche/">this collection of stank nasty beats</a> is not family friendly. And it has barely anything at all to do with the circus.</p>
<p>Snaps and cowbells, pitched-down vocal samples, swampy bass, even Hot97 style air horns - yup, this sounds like some nice, nice trap. But with <a href="/music/Digi_GAlessio/Cirque_de_Poche/"><em>Cirque's</em></a> twists and turns, it's kind of hard to imagine anyone actually dropping rhymes over these snare cracks. Plus there are those sections that sound more like 90s techno. And those moments of totally dry silence interspersed. Oh well, might as well just let your head nod. Let's hope Drake and Digi never meet up.</p>
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</table>A Magnificent Band of Men Without Fear - A Band Magnifique dos Homes sen Medohttp://freemusicarchive.org/curator/CCcommunity/blog/Magnificent_Street_Music_-_A_Band_Magnifique_dos_Homes_sen_Medo2017-07-05T04:35:25-04:002013-01-17T08:15:00-05:00Ben Seretanhttp://freemusicarchive.org/member/bseretan<p>Courtesy of Italian blogger and FMA contributer <a title="NetMusicLife" href="/member/NetMusic_Life" target="_blank" data-mce-href="/member/NetMusic_Life">NetMusicLife</a>, a fun band of 9 dudes wearing matching plaid jackets who speak Portugese. A <a href="/music/A_Magnifique_Bande_dos_Homes_sen_Medo/" data-mce-href="/music/A_Magnifique_Bande_dos_Homes_sen_Medo/">Band Magnifique dos Homes sen Medo</a> lands somewhere between a Buddy Rich style big band, the Skatelites, and a New Orleans wake with their brazzy, jazzy melodies and occasional shout choruses. While saxophones blare, a tuba holds down the basslines and two drummers carry around their own halves of the drumset. Surely Galicia's finest.</p><p>Plus, here's a great video of them marching through a mall/fish market - watch how the guitarist drags his amp around!</p><p><iframe src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/X7n2p6-lx0w" frameborder="0" width="560" height="315" data-mce-src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/X7n2p6-lx0w"></iframe></p>Modern Classical and Generative Art Shape Lauki's Antartica Dreamscapehttp://freemusicarchive.org/curator/CCcommunity/blog/Lauki2017-07-05T04:35:25-04:002013-01-16T08:00:00-05:00Jason Sigalhttp://freemusicarchive.org/member/jason<p><img src="http://blogfiles.wfmu.org/JI/lauki.jpg" alt="" width="40%" align="right" hspace="5" /><strong><a title="http://laukiak.wordpress.com/" href="http://laukiak.wordpress.com/" target="_blank">Lauki</a> </strong>is a Barcelona-based sound designer with a penchant for modern classical music and generative multimedia art.</p>
<p>The coordinates of <a title="http://freemusicarchive.org/music/Lauki/6954S-13512E/" href="/music/Lauki/6954S-13512E/" target="_blank"><strong><em>69º54´S-135º12´E</em></strong></a> point somewhere along the coast of Wilkes Land, Antarctica. Lauki describes "the polar desert, another frontier of our planetary existence, a territory where only fools and heroes dare to go." On this recording, Lauki's digital processing manipulates classical instruments—including Heike Grafe's guest violin part on "Deconstrucción"—to shape the ambient dreamscape of a frozen world.</p>
<p>Despite the record's sensation of a glacial stillness, it is a quick 15-minute listen. Such is the nature of every release on <strong><a title="http://audiogourmet.co.uk/" href="http://audiogourmet.co.uk/" target="_blank">Audio Gourmet</a></strong>, a UK-based netlabel cooking up releases "that can be listened to in full during a standard working tea-break."</p>
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<p>License: <a title="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/" href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/" target="_blank">Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives</a><br />More Permissions: <a href="http://laukiak.wordpress.com/contact" target="_blank">Contact Lauki</a></p>
<p>Thanks to <a title="http://freemusicarchive.org/curator/CCcommunity/blog/Best_of_2012_Recent_Music_Heroes" href="/curator/CCcommunity/blog/Best_of_2012_Recent_Music_Heroes" target="_blank">Recent Music Heroes</a> for the tip on this release!</p>Dalibor Picks The Best Creative Commons Metalhttp://freemusicarchive.org/curator/CCcommunity/blog/Best_of_2012_Free_Metal_Albums2017-07-05T04:35:25-04:002013-01-14T03:30:00-05:00Jason Sigalhttp://freemusicarchive.org/member/jason<p>We invited Dalibor from <a title="freemetalalbums.wordpress.com" href="http://freemetalalbums.wordpress.com" target="_blank"><strong>Free Metal Albums</strong></a> to present his favorite Creative Commons metal releases. Free Metal Albums shares our initials, and spreads the word about amazing, often annonymous, metal bands from French power metal band Holy Pain to the symphonic female-fronted Hungarian group Obsidian Shell. Nuno Anes founded Free Metal Albums from Portugal in May 2007, and Dalibor took over in August of 2012. Dalibor runs Free Metal Albums in parallel to his original free music site, <a title="http://steppenraven.blogspot.com/" href="http://steppenraven.blogspot.com/" target="_blank">W H I T E R A V E N</a>.</p>
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<td><a title="http://freemusicarchive.org/music/Holy_Pain/Last_Sigh/" href="/music/Holy_Pain/Last_Sigh/" target="_blank">Holy Pain - Last Sigh</a><br /><object width="200" height="50"><param name="movie" value="http://freemusicarchive.org/swf/trackplayer.swf" /><param name="flashvars" value="track=http://freemusicarchive.org/services/playlists/embed/track/75221.xml" /><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="sameDomain" /><embed width="200" height="50" flashvars="track=http://freemusicarchive.org/services/playlists/embed/track/75221.xml" src="/swf/trackplayer.swf" allowscriptaccess="sameDomain" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" /></object></td>
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<td><a title="http://freemusicarchive.org/music/Aching_Beauty/LUltima_Ora" href="/music/Aching_Beauty/LUltima_Ora" target="_blank">Aching Beauty - L'Ultima Ora</a><a title="http://freemusicarchive.org/music/Aching_Beauty/LUltima_Ora" href="/music/Aching_Beauty/LUltima_Ora" target="_blank"><object width="200" height="50"><param name="movie" value="http://freemusicarchive.org/swf/trackplayer.swf" /><param name="flashvars" value="track=http://freemusicarchive.org/services/playlists/embed/track/75230.xml" /><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="sameDomain" /><embed width="200" height="50" flashvars="track=http://freemusicarchive.org/services/playlists/embed/track/75230.xml" src="/swf/trackplayer.swf" allowscriptaccess="sameDomain" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" /></object></a></td>
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<td><a title="http://freemusicarchive.org/music/Molecul/_____1357/" href="/music/Molecul/_____1357/" target="_blank">Molecul - Где нет места цифрам…осталась ЛЮБОВЬ?</a><br /><object width="200" height="50"><param name="movie" value="http://freemusicarchive.org/swf/trackplayer.swf" /><param name="flashvars" value="track=http://freemusicarchive.org/services/playlists/embed/track/75240.xml" /><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="sameDomain" /><embed width="200" height="50" flashvars="track=http://freemusicarchive.org/services/playlists/embed/track/75240.xml" src="/swf/trackplayer.swf" allowscriptaccess="sameDomain" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" /></object></td>
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<td><a title="http://freemusicarchive.org/music/IDVISION/Plaszmadkaos/" href="/music/IDVISION/Plaszmadkaos/" target="_blank">ID:VISION - Plaszmadkaos</a><br /><object width="200" height="50"><param name="movie" value="http://freemusicarchive.org/swf/trackplayer.swf" /><param name="flashvars" value="track=http://freemusicarchive.org/services/playlists/embed/track/75286.xml" /><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="sameDomain" /><embed width="200" height="50" flashvars="track=http://freemusicarchive.org/services/playlists/embed/track/75286.xml" src="/swf/trackplayer.swf" allowscriptaccess="sameDomain" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" /></object></td>
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<p>Check out <a title="http://freemetalalbums.wordpress.com/" href="http://freemetalalbums.wordpress.com/" target="_blank">Free Metal Albums</a> and <a title="http://steppenraven.blogspot.com/" href="http://steppenraven.blogspot.com/" target="_blank">White Raven</a> for more of Dalibor's selections.</p>
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